Mary Cassatt Mother & Child Old ORIGINAL Graphite & Pastel Drawing w/ Provenance

Description: Mary Cassatt Mother & Child Old ORIGINAL Graphite & Pastel Drawing with Provenance From the individual who inherited Cassatt's studio Currently, I am having my"NOVEMBER FINE ART SALE!" In the spirit of the season, there are no buyer's premiums, and all paid-for items will ship within one business day. Buyers will also only pay the actual shippingcost with no charge for materials, handling or transportation costs to the shipper! Item: Mary Cassatt Mother & Child Old ORIGINAL Graphite & Pastel Drawing with Provenance Artist or Maker: Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) Provenance: The collector's mark on this drawing belongs to Mathilde Valet (Lugt 2665a). Valet was Mary Cassatt's housekeeper and assisted the artist in managing both her personal and business affairs. In her will, Cassatt bequeathed her atelier to Valet. A year later, Valet sold most of the collection at auction in an anonymous sale at Hôtel Drouot in Paris, now known as the Mathilde X sale. Other provenance is with the estate of Alfred Selnick (1929 - 2022) from Hillsdale, New York. Selnick began his career in a contractor’s office, followed by an eight-year stint with an architectural engineering firm. His interest in collecting art began in the late 1960s after he met Phyliss Solomon, a volunteer at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. She had started collecting American portraiture. Together, they showcased both of their collections in their home and adjoining gallery on a mountainside in Hillsdale, which was designed by Selnick. Signed: No. Medium: Graphite and pastel on a cream colored paper. Drawing's Size: 10.25" by 8.5" Drawing's Condition: There are handling marks (with a tiny crease primarily) located near the top of the paper, a tiny tack hole on the upper right and mild toning. Otherwise, the drawing is in good overall condition. Framed Size: The 4" wide and 1.5" deep carved and gilded wood frame measures 24" by 20". The frame isn't as old as the painting. Frame's Condition: Some minor nicks, scratches and a 6" vertical, hairline crack on the right side. Ultraviolet Light Test: No repairs or inpainting. Additional Comments: Mary Cassatt is the listed American author of this drawing. Many critics consider Cassatt to be the most famous American female impressionist. Her works can be found in the permanent art collections of more than 50 museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art, the Louvre Museum, and the National Gallery of Art. She participated in numerous early exhibitions of Impressionist art and maintained a long friendship with Edgar Degas. Like Degas, Cassatt’s work never wholly broke with tradition but instead assimilated some of the characteristics of Impressionism into a realistic style. She was a determined artist who achieved critical and commercial success at a time when few women painters were taken seriously. Her success in a male-dominated field is a testament to her resilience and determination. “I have touched with a sense of art some people—they felt the love and the life,” she once said. Cassatt is best known for works depicting mothers with their children. This pastel and graphite drawing is a superb example of her work. Possessing confident lines and an empathetically rendered composition, she captured the bond between a mother and her daughter with such emotional depth that it resonates with the viewer. Biography: Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) "Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844–1926), born in Allegheny City (now part of Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, spent her early years with her family in France and Germany. From 1860 to 1862, she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. By 1865, she had convinced her parents to let her study in Paris, where she took private lessons from leading academic painter Jean-Léon Gérôme, copied works of the old masters, and went sketching. She stayed in Courance and Écouen and studied with Édouard Frère and Paul Soyer. In 1868, Cassatt’s painting The Mandolin Player (private collection) was accepted at the Paris Salon, the first time her work was represented there. After three-and-a-half years in France, the Franco-Prussian War interrupted Cassatt’s studies and she returned to Philadelphia in the late summer of 1870. Cassatt returned to Europe in 1871. She spent eight months in Parma, Italy, in 1872, studying the paintings of Correggio and Parmigianino and working with the advice of Carlo Raimondi, head of the department of engraving at the Parma Academy. In 1873, she visited Spain, Belgium, and Holland to study and copy the works of Velázquez, Rubens, and Hals. In June 1874, Cassatt settled in Paris, where she began to show regularly in the Salons, and where her parents and sister Lydia joined her in 1877. That same year, Edgar Degas invited her to join the group of independent artists later known as the Impressionists. The only American officially associated with the group, Cassatt exhibited in four of their eight exhibitions, in 1879, 1880, 1881, and 1886. Under their influence, Cassatt revised her technique, composition, and use of color and light, manifesting her admiration for the works of the French avant-garde, especially Degas and Manet. Degas, her chief mentor, provided criticism of her work, offered advice on technique, and encouraged her experiments in printmaking. Like Degas, she was chiefly interested in figure compositions. During the late 1870s and early 1880s, the subjects of her works were her family (especially her sister Lydia), the theater, and the opera. Later she made a specialty of the mother and child theme, which she treated with warmth and naturalness in paintings, pastels, and prints. Cassatt’s role as an advisor to art collectors benefited many public and private collections in the United States. From her early days in Paris, she encouraged the collection of old masters and the French avant-garde. In 1901, she accompanied Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer on a collecting trip in Italy and Spain. Cassatt had known Mrs. Havemeyer before her marriage. In 1873, she had encouraged the then seventeen-year-old Louisine Elder to buy a pastel by Degas, and the two women became close friends. Cassatt was eventually instrumental in shaping the Havemeyer collection, most of which is now in the Metropolitan Museum. Failing eyesight severely curtailed Cassatt’s work after 1900. She gave up printmaking in 1901, and in 1904 stopped painting. She spent most of the war years in Grasse and died in 1926 at her country home, Château de Beaufresne, at Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise."Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art TERMS: SELLER'S PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS:Payment must be received within five days of receiving an invoice. If you do not want your item shipped immediately (within 24 hours), please contact me before paying! Please get in touch with me before paying if you want to combine shipping with other items. Once an item is paid for, eBay obligates me to ship it within 24 hours, or eBay marks it as a transaction defect on my account. New Mexico Buyers: All residents within the state of New Mexico will be charged state sales tax (6.69%) at the time of checkout. If you can provide me with a copy of your NM sales tax ID, the sales tax will be removed. International buyers: The shipping calculator on the auction is an estimate, and actual charges will be figured at the close of each auction. 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Price: 3000 USD

Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico

End Time: 2024-12-07T23:00:01.000Z

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